Sarah Morris: All Systems Fail

Since the 1990s, Sarah Morris has created an extensive oeuvre of paintings, films, site-specific murals, and sculptures that reflect her interest in networks, typologies, globalization, and architecture, as well as the chain of cities in which she embeds her works. Using both reality and vivid, complex abstractions, Morris creates a new language of place and politics. She sees her pictures as self-generating and open to interpretation, movement, and change, giving viewers a sense of being part of a larger system.In her films, which she creates alongside her paintings, Morris explores psychogeography and the dynamic nature of cities in flux through the layered and fragmented narratives they contain. The situations in which the artist places herself and the viewer reflect the hierarchies in which we live. Morris plays with the contradiction of our complicity with structures at the macro and micro levels in a unique way, and is recognized as one of the most fascinating artists of her generation.Comprising over 50 paintings, the artist's entire cinematic oeuvre (16 films), film posters, drawings from major museums and private collections in Europe and the United States, and architectural models of her site-specific installations, the catalogue provides a comprehensive overview of her practice, which ranges from her early work from the 1990s to her most recent series, Sound Graphs. It is the first retrospective exhibition organized with the artist which uses all aspects of her works as well as innovative LED lighting to create an expansive, immersive environment of paintings and films.